On Jan 3, 2009, at 12:48 PM, Jason Grout wrote:
> > Bill, > > It seems that you have more experience with Reduce than most of us > here. > How would you generally compare Maxima and Reduce in calculus > functionality, specifically integration? Can you interface with > Reduce > on a library level, rather than a tty level? Could this be a short- > term > answer to the problems we are having with Maxima? > > I wonder how the Matlab folks are feeling now, having bought Mupad to > get a symbolic system. I don't know how Mupad and Reduce compare, > though. > If Reduce is an optional package and the integration function is exposed through the Sage interface, I'll support it in the integration test suite. Maxima's integration on the whole isn't too bad. In general, it's faster than FriCAS. The main problem I have is that it can't return multiple solutions so it requires assumptions to be set to choose the appropriate branch if one is calling from Sage. So, I don't know if we really have a problem with Maxima. However, Maxima and the pynac symbolics aren't really compatible at the moment so that's a problem. Cheers, Tim. --- Tim Lahey PhD Candidate, Systems Design Engineering University of Waterloo http://www.linkedin.com/in/timlahey --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-devel-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
